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An exciting final day of action
The 2021 Polish Championships were played in two different formats. The open section was a 16-player knockout event while the women’s section was a 10-player single round robin. Except for Jan-Krzysztof Duda, every player from the national top 10 participated.
The Ruy Lopez is one of the oldest openings which continues to enjoy high popularity from club level to the absolute world top. In this video series, American super GM Fabiano Caruana, talking to IM Oliver Reeh, presents a complete repertoire for White.
In the end, it was rating favourite Radoslaw Wojtaszek who won the open tournament, defeating Wojciech Moranda in the final match. This was Wojtaszek’s fourth victory in the national championship. The experienced grandmaster had won the event for the first time in 2005, the same year he was awarded the GM title, at 18. Poland’s number 2 also prevailed in 2014 and 2016.
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A knockout and a round robin
Bydgoszcz is a city in norther Poland, a part of the Bydgoszcz–Toruń metropolitan area, which totals over 850,000 inhabitants. The eighth-largest city in Poland, it is located between the Vistula and Oder rivers, which means the city belongs to a water system connected via the Noteć, Warta and Elbe with the Rhine and Rotterdam.
Known as
Little Berlin, Bydgoszcz is an architecturally rich city, with neo-gothic, neo-baroque, neoclassicist, modernist and Art Nouveau styles present. The notable granaries on Mill Island and along the riverside belong to one of the most recognized timber-framed landmarks in Poland.